Garment hanger accessory and hanger



March 28, 1944.' W R. KQHL ET AL 2,345,483

GARMENT HANGER ACCESSORY AND HANGER Filed mayy 5, 1941 7J A i Patented Mar. 28, 1944 GARMENT' HANGER ACCESSORY ANp HANGER William R. Kohl, Glenview,

Ill., and William W.

McFall, Mankato, Minn. Application May 5, 1941, Serial No. 391,846

3 Claims.

Our invention is a demountable device for imposition on a garment hanger to lockingly sup port accessory articles thereon.

In a process of garment cleaning a constant and very expensive trouble arises among cleaners in the loss of articles accessory to garments being cleaned, and especially is this the case in a large proportion of womens garments going through the cleaning process, as each article is separately handled in the work. Each article is hung upon a hanger and these hung garments are passed along in quantity to a point where a device of some kind is used to place said garment in a protecting bag. In an ordinary garment which is a unit in itself, the ordinary type of hanger may be used, but Where accessories have to be carefully taken care of the application herein provides for a specific device which is instantly convenient for locking an accessory to the hanger and which said hanger is constructed to take this accessory in the simplest manner and provide for safety, economy and speed. In many cleaners establishments an expense for insurance arises because of the losses encountered by reason of the accessory getting separated from the garment to which it belongs. Such a garment hanger with such an accessory provides that the accessory can be changed from one hanger to another to meet the needs of each individual garment.

In the accompanying drawing is shown an embodiment of our invention in which Fig. 1 is a garment accessory locking device.

Fig. 2 is a specialized form of a garment hanger with the garment accessory device thereon.

Fig. 3 is a side View of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged broken section along the arrows 4--4.

As illustrated I--with the arrowindicates the general demountable device in which 2 and 3 are parallel bars in a common plane. These bars are formed into a unitary device by end portions 4 and 4 so formed that the ends 4 form a means of straddling the device at the junction of the inclined portions of the triangle and the vertical walls of the rectangle. 4 are curved portions bent inwardly from 4 to the shorter horizontal bar 3,' the device is demountably placed over the hook of a hanger and dropped into position on the inclined surfaces: the longer horizontal bar extending adjacent one side of the hanger and the shorter bar extending for- Ward from the opposite side of the hanger.

This device provides for the locking of a garment accessory upon a hanger after a garment has been installed upon the triangular portions of the hanger. As shown in Fig. 4 when an accessory, such as a belt or necklace, is hung on 2 and the folds brought over 3 the garment normally locks itself by friction with the locking device.

In Fig. 2 we show a hanger consisting of a hook of the ordinary type with a sliank supporting a form with three sides, the base portion being open, and the same forming a portion of a dependent triangle 5 consisting of inclined por tions I4 and I5 and a horizontal base 9. This type of hanger is peculiarly adapted to the general garment cleaning business. In the handling of garments and placing the same upon the hangers the formation in Fig. 2 provides a hand hold in handling quantities of garments; where the hook is ineiiicient.

In Fig. 5 we show the accessory mounted on a standard type of wire hanger, which is the type most commonly used by garment cleaners.

A-in dotted linesrefers to a type of accessory as applied to the specific garment accessory locking device.

We claim:

l. In combination, a garment hanger having a triangular body portion and a hook member at the apex of said body portion, an auxiliary demountable garment supporter comprising two spaced bars connected at adjacent ends to form an elongated attened loop member, the apex of the hanger passing through said loop member, the spacing of the bars at the ends of the said loop member being only slightly greater than the thickness of the body portion of the garment hanger.

2. In combination, a wire garment hanger having a generally triangular body portion and a hook member at the apex of said body portion, said hook member being connected with the triangular body portion at the apex of the body portion by a neck centering portion comprising two upstanding bars which are spaced substantially from each other at opposite sides of the hook portion, an auxiliary demountable garment supporter comprising two spaced bars connected at adjacent ends to form an elongated attened loop member of substantially the same length as the spacing of the bars forming the neck centering portion, the apex of the of said loop member, the spacing of the bars of the garment supporter at the ends of said loop member being only slightly greater than the thickness of the body portion of the garment hanger.

3. In combination, a Wire garment hanger having a generally. triangular body portion and a hook member at the apex of said body portion, said hook member being connected with the triangular body portion at the apex of the body portion by a neck centering portion comprising two upstanding bars which are spaced substantially from each other at opposite sides of the hook portion, an auxiliary demountable garment supporter comprising two spaced bars connected at adjacent ends to form an elongated flattened loop member of substantially the same length as the spacing of the bars forming the neck centering portion, the apex of the hanger passing through said loop member with the bars of the neck centering portion disposed Within the ends of said loop member, the spacing of the bars of the garment supporter at the ends of said loop member being only slightly greater than the thickness of the body portion of the garment hanger, and the spacing of said bars intermediate the ends of the loop member being consider ably greater than the thickness of the body nortion of the garment hanger.

WILLIAM R. KOHL. WILLIAM W. MCFALL. 

